East Africa is saddled with rogue and selfish leaders

 

Last week, I witnessed scenes that could have been snatched right out of war documentaries and films from Idi Amin’s Uganda, or Charles Taylor’s/Samuel Doe’s Liberia. I was leaving Kampala after a meeting with regional interfaith leaders on the same day that Bobi Wine was returning home. And I saw a regime at war with its own people; a regime that so despises and belittles its own people that it alone determines who can be welcome, and by whom. When brute force and violence is used in this way, then that is a regime with neither legitimacy nor credibility.